ajross

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by ajross 10mo ago
It's an extremely simple algorithm, just one loop with an iterated expression inside it. You can check the source code at: https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison/tree/master/... It's
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by ajross 10mo ago
I'd say Roblox is absolutely filling that market need. And as mentioned elsewhere, the "animations and games" demographic has moved on in the intervening decades to social media, and tools like CapCut make creating online co
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by ajross 10mo ago
Sure, but that's because the media and forums change, not so much a point about tool capability. The equivalent of teenaged geeks hacking on flash games today is influencer wannabes editting trends in CapCut. If anything content prod
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by ajross 10mo ago
You're preaching to the choir about the fragility of the the "dig the dependency stack all the way down to hell" paradigm. But I don't think it applies in this particular case (neither does attributing it to vibe coding
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by ajross 10mo ago
Uh... Flash was a genuine firehose of security flaws. I mean, yeah, they patched them. So "battle tested security layer" isn't wrong in a technical sense. But, yikes, no.
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by ajross 10mo ago
> most of us have jobs where we can't unilaterally switch to the 'cooler' solution Which is exactly why the uncool solutions persist in the market. They're useful and practical! If they weren't they never would
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by ajross 10mo ago
> you can just use the heavier one for everything Because people don't like using heavyweight solutions needlessly. That's the logic that begat C++ and Ada and Multics and ASN.1 and CORBA. All of which were good solutions use
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by ajross 10mo ago
Well, sure, but generally when your hypothesis demands a highly non-linear distribution function to make sense, it's just wrong. That might be true; the math could be made to work. But if it were, that is the result the study would
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by ajross 10mo ago
I don't buy it. Road fatalities are probably the single easiest hypothesis to isolate. You can't put a label on a cancer or heart attack death, but you sure can for trauma deaths.
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by ajross 10mo ago
I don't follow? If the population of college educated adults is growing, it's by definition becoming less selective and would be expected to show less skew. College educated people used to be a "special" demographi
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by ajross 10mo ago
Not to nitpick, but that means if you sample randomly then you're going to find that the great majority of Americans have, in fact, driven less than 500k miles in their life. Also I don't think that's correct; that's a
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by ajross 11mo ago
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Seems like the Butlerian Jihad is arriving ahead of schedule, and the real horrors demanding the uprising aren't oppression and violence, but viral marketing an
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by ajross 11mo ago
Again though, does that NHTSA report include "hit a garbage can" accidents or not? My strong suspicion is not[1], because they aren't required to be reported to anyone. So comparing it to an autonomy trial (which clearly is
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by ajross 11mo ago
FTA: "For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles." Does anyone know what the cite for this might be? I'm coming up empty. To my knowledge, no one (except maybe insurance compan
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by ajross 11mo ago
(I remain amazed at how people even today will argue like this trying to avoid talking nice about MS. You're misconstruing the point, seemingly deliberately.) Sure, on $15k ($30k in 2025 dollars) Mac II's. See also the answer el
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by ajross 11mo ago
And that answer is precisely why (1) Windows 95 was such a revelation to the market and (2) nerds like us remain oblivious to that[1] even three decades on. Yeah, yeah, I know CUA allows for a window close. No one knew. I worked IT at the
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by ajross 11mo ago
Mac UI as generally understood didn't involve moving windows around yet, not really[1]. "Window management" at the time was limited to the paradigm you'd see on the mac plus screen where you'd have one app window a
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by ajross 11mo ago
This was a kludgey hack that never managed to land upstream, yet utterly dominated (for a brief moment) the headspace of the early linux desktop. It's funny how quickly things were moving at the time. In the mid 90's, GUI design
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by ajross 11mo ago
> Going back to the Industrial Revolution the United States has been 100% gas pedal all the time on innovation and disruption Arguably true, but it's also been way ahead of the pack (people tend to forget this) on protection for org
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by ajross 11mo ago
Well... yeah. It's a Linux API for a Linux feature only available on Linux systems. If you use a platform-specific API on a multiplatform project, the portability work falls on you. Do you expect to be able to run your Swift UI on
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by ajross 11mo ago
That's really not such a weird choice. The systemd library is pervasive and compatible. The weird bit is the analysis[1], which complains that a Go binary doesn't run on Alpine Linux, a system which is explicitly and intentional
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by ajross 11mo ago
> I would think making sure outside payment links aren’t scams will be more expensive than that You really think that the aggregate cost of fraud mitigation in the app store is 30% of revenue? That seems laughable, the credit card indus
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by ajross 11mo ago
You lost this fight more than a century ago. Helvetica and almost all related grotesque fonts lack a serif on "I", and dominate modern typography. You see them everywhere, on every device. Pull your phone out your pocket and se
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by ajross 11mo ago
No, because normal people can read "l00l" as a number just fine and don't actually care if the underlying encoding is different. AI won't care either. It's just us on-the-spectrum nerds with our archaic determinis
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by ajross 11mo ago
On a screen, vs. Times New Roman? Absolutely, and it isn't at all close. Serifs on even the highest DPI displays look pretty terrible when compared with print, and lose readability tests every time they're measured.
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by ajross 11mo ago
> Calibri font has "I" and "l" the same, according to Wikipedia. A better font should avoid characters being too similar (such as "I" and "l" and "1"). Only when used in a context where t
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by ajross 11mo ago
> You are incorrect Sigh. I hate that phrasing. But OK, fine: you are misreading me, misanalysing the data, or just plain spinning to mislead readers. Fatalities per capita and per mile driven go steadily downward until covid, and may
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by ajross 11mo ago
> driving is getting more dangerous year by year Not over the long term, no. There may have been a recent uptick in the post-pandemic US but it's mostly just noise. Fatalities per mile driven have been going down markedly in recen
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by ajross 11mo ago
I believe the whole Vivobook Go line is fanless, actually. But again, the point isn't to get into a shouting match over whose proxied anatomy is largest. It's to try to explain why the market as a whole doesn't move the way
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by ajross 11mo ago
Your "normal people" are mac owners, and your other group is "PC users". You're measuring the 0.1%! (Which, fine, is probably more like 15% or whatever. Still not a representative sample.) You're likely also

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